Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last Tango in Paris, Bertolucci abandoned adaptation and, on the surface, politics in favor of pure psychological portraiture on a personal, microcosmic level. What threatens the audience's complacency is such intensity on such a personal level. The audience dilutes the passions of the film by thinking of it only in terms of one more weekend's entertaining diversion. People can ignore the film in the same way that people who watch television news can ignore...
...nature alone is not sufficient, even for her own freedom. Lifting her dress and tying it about her waist, she begins to run; moving as quickly as she can. With this effort, the muscles in her legs and torso begin to flame. This is work, labor at its most pure; this toiling to rid oneself of chains imposed by some other. Pleasure sharp and murderous, rages through her suddenly. Her motion inside the rain is a war; her battling unnoticed. Even though catcalls seem to be flying from all directions. Tiny boys whistle at her sturdy legs, gasping exclamations...
...cloche hats pulled down to the eyebrows For evening, everything is soft and flowing in chiffon and crepe de Chine, bias cut to drape close to the body, just the thing for a moonlight tango with a gentleman in an Indian silk suit. The fabrics are natural-wool, linens, pure cotton-and difficult to care for, with a tendency to develop the rumpled badge of the thoroughly bred. "A poor man can't afford to look wrinkled," observes Lauren. "A rich...
...indeed upon her race. She may be excessively hard on civilization. But, as only a really gifted writer can, she turns paranoia into art, forcing her rapidly industrializing fellow countrymen - her rap idly overindustrializing world - to contemplate the hate in the bloody eye of one of their victims: the "pure pain, clear as water, an animal's at the moment the trap closes." ∙Melvin Maddocks
...What happened was that Leigh Montville of The Globe, who is covering the Eastern Regionals, heard people talking in Charlotte [N.C.] about Harrison being finished," Pittinger said. "We have not made a decision yet on Harrison, and Montville's report is pure speculation," he added...